SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 26 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed or have
case numbers
given only
later, on August
8, an
alleged
kidnapper was
presented with
a case number
but a lot
of doubts
about both his
and the
government's
stories.

Jonathan
Cummings is
charged with
kidnapping a
women and two
children at
gunpoint and
driving them
to New Jersey,
ultimately
dropping or
dumping them
at a mall in
Edison, New
Jersey.
Cummings'
Federal
Defender said
the
complainant is
a fraudster
who might be
trying to
extort
Cummings, who
he said he
planning to
enrolling in
Dutchess
Community
College before
the next
semester. The
government
noted it's
almost back to
school time
and he has not
enrolled.
Ultimately, he
was not
released,
unlike at
least one of
two
Arizona-based
meth
defendants.

But
on August 22
by Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein,
a bail package
was signed off
on: $100,000
with two
co-signers,
not to confer
with
co-conspirator
or victims,
home detention
with
electronic
monitoring.
We'll have
more on this.

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